Estradiol attenuates spinal cord injury-induced pain by suppressing microglial activation in thalamic VPL nuclei of rats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 316-323

  Saghaei, Elham ^a   Abbaszadeh, Fatemeh ^a   Naseri, Kobra ^a   Ghorbanpoor, Samar ^a   Afhami, Mina ^a   Haeri, Ali ^a   Rahimi, Farzaneh ^b   Jorjani, Masoumeh ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Central pain syndrome; Estradiol; Microglia; VPL

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MICROGLIA; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 84876159866     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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